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20th WCP: The Role of Love in the Thought of Kant and Kierkegaard

We should consider whether a philosophy that cannot find a central place for love can be humanly satisfying. ... It is obvious that Works of Love is itself a work ...

Plato on Love - Oxford Academic

The problem of understanding Symposium as a philosophical work is in part a problem of seeing how all of its material hangs together. Phaedrus creates rather ...

The love lives of philosophers changed how we think - IAI TV

What if we could tell the history of philosophy through the history of philosophers' love lives ... We use essential cookies to make our site work ...

Dietrich von Hildebrand's Philosophy of Love | EWTN

Without prior knowledge of Von Hildebrand, he read "The Nature of Love" for the conference and found it to be one of the most significant books he'd ever read.

Plato and Love - VoegelinView

It is, however, central to Plato's philosophy (and Christianity). It drives the development and the education of the philosopher. The ...

A Love Story for the Hopeless Romantic Philosopher | by Jamie Garcia

Alain de Botton, a Swiss-born British philosopher, who's written a number of books on the subject of love and other topics, writes about ...

Philosophers and Love - TIM press

Love from Socrates to Simone de Beauvoir is written by two female journalists working for the prominent French intellectual and cultural weekly Le Nouvel ...

What Is Love? | A Philosophical Exploration - YouTube

Love is all you need. But what is it exactly? The contemporary concept of love revolves around the experience of blissful infatuation with ...

Beloved Philosophical Writings on Love - Daily Nous

What philosophical writing about love would you have us read? The above is a passage from "The Historicity of Psychological Attitudes: Love ...

Love in 19th-Century Western Philosophy - Taylor & Francis eBooks

... love is most prominently developed in the works of Hegel, Schopenhauer ... In this chapter, I identify the primary writings of these philosophers in which ...

The Philosophy of Love: Plato to Modern Thinkers - eSoftSkills

Aristotle's view on love shows a deep understanding of human connections. He talked about two main types of love: philia and eros. These ideas are still ...

The ideologies of love - New APPS: Art, Politics, Philosophy, Science

As is well known, Ronnie has made decisive contributions to the philosophy of emotions, in particular in his books The Rationality of Emotions ( ...

Great Philosophers Who Failed at Love - Neatorama

If anyone can teach us about love, it should be the great philosophers. But as it turns out, a lover of wisdom and a wise lover are two very different things.

How love and intimacy shaped philosophical thought - Blog of the APA

In this work, Nietzsche declared that 'God is Dead'. This famous proclamation not only revealed something profound that Nietzsche had observed ...

Can love be forever? | Daily Philosophy

In the Symposion, perhaps the most famous of the ancient Greek philosophical texts on love, Plato gives us a definition of what love is:.

Philosophy A Philosophical Life - St. Olaf College

Each of the following great philosophers' works are widely read in colleges ... love of wisdom may be considered a philosophical site or relationship.

"Love and Understanding": The tangle of love and wisdom (Love #7)

Even if we agree that philosophy has something to do with love and something to do with wisdom, we might tend to give the idea of wisdom a ...

Category:Philosophy of love - Wikipedia

A · Agape · Agape and Eros · Agapism · Amatonormativity · Amour de soi · Amour-propre · Anti-Flirt Club · Attachment theory ...

A Personal Love of the Good | Philosophia

Solomon, one of the fore-figures of cognitive accounts in the philosophy of emotion, turns to the question of reasons for love in several places ...

Great Philosophers Who Failed at Love - Goodreads

Few people have failed at love as spectacularly as the great philosophers. Although we admire their wisdom, history is littered with the romantic failures ...


The Great Gatsby

Novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRbSF6gO78cx31SLBbDfeRcazJoDOx7PlGwdNps2LEgJWoehu4e

The Great Gatsby is a 1925 novel by American writer F. Scott Fitzgerald. Set in the Jazz Age on Long Island, near New York City, the novel depicts first-person narrator Nick Carraway's interactions with Jay Gatsby, the mysterious millionaire with an obsession to reunite with his former lover, Daisy Buchanan.

Moby-Dick

Novel by Herman Melville https://encrypted-tbn2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTiSwEkdCqgtd6OdGuqioGyxUhUokFDp-j2dyIoBzZlFYPBDiAI

Moby-Dick; or, The Whale is an 1851 epic novel by American writer Herman Melville. The book is centered on the sailor Ishmael's narrative of the maniacal quest of Ahab, captain of the whaling ship Pequod, for vengeance against Moby Dick, the giant white sperm whale that bit off his leg on the ship's previous voyage.

The Art of War

Book by Sun Tzu https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRSMcsNbxVzfFf74uY8Hmp-HJ2pTzGpdRmqvTMVChbqwiAgqEjB

The Art of War is an ancient Chinese military treatise dating from the late Spring and Autumn period. The work, which is attributed to the ancient Chinese military strategist Sun Tzu, is composed of 13 chapters.

The Prince

Book by Niccolo Machiavelli https://encrypted-tbn2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcR-43rvaxF-Xu7UbL99KtWb8nEVQLC0XKAJxQZDuu1j8s3fonIQ

The Prince is a 16th-century political treatise written by the Italian diplomat, philosopher, and political theorist Niccolò Machiavelli in the form of a realistic instruction guide for new princes.

Gulliver's Travels

Book by Jonathan Swift https://encrypted-tbn3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQpY6UwSweJywIFv5Uv1N8MaAGAoJqSzv2D-NL4Mr-TdUV_5-2l

Gulliver's Travels, or Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. In Four Parts. By Lemuel Gulliver, First a Surgeon, and then a Captain of Several Ships is a 1726 prose satire by the Anglo-Irish writer and clergyman Jonathan Swift, satirising both human nature and the "travellers' tales" literary subgenre.

Tao Te Ching

Book by Laozi https://encrypted-tbn3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSVKXSGAPvgjqVio9pdH93qx5LCX4grPWjKnABnCKEfxOjfFBO6

The Tao Te Ching or Laozi is a Chinese classic text and foundational work of Taoism traditionally credited to the sage Laozi, though the text's authorship, date of composition and date of compilation are debated.